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Another $40 accessory this time its the iPad to Projector or Monitor.

The Dream: being able to project whats on the iPad screen to a Projector or Monitor. Perfect for Presentations and apps etc.

The Reality: Only apps thats permit the connection work. So far it’s Keynote and Movies.Not even PDFs in iBooks.

So rating 1/10. You should have the option to copy and show everything IMHO.

Can’t wait until tomorrow when the ipad is released so i can get this one out in public. At the moment you get a lot of stares and the odd evangelist come up for a conversation and ask what i use it for…so…

Still loving iBooks – reading Seth Godin’s linchpin and its great being able to read a chapter every so often. Would be nice to copy and paste book text which you can’t.

Games. Having a lot of fun with the pinball HD game, flight control multiplayer and scrabble. Sodoku is good. People are most impressed with real racing which is just an immersive experience.

Flighttracker has been good whilst we’ve been away, maps fantastic, really the shirring of content of pictures and video is a really nice experience.

To save iphone battery I’ve found myself using the iPod function for listening to music.

Have been using keynote for wireframes play and touch is going to be a great way to build stuff in the future.

Email is fantastic. Calendar is strange – can’t add an event by clicking on the time of the day – weird.

Can see myself updating blog more often using wordpress.

The iphone app navigation between pages doesn’t really work very well. I find the icons too small and I’m sure this will be changed in future versions.

The other nice thing is its much more social over the breakfast table. Love reading the BBC news app and yes I can see myself paying for a quality publication.

Kids are loving magnetic draw.

Love the battery life.

Would like a Skype and Facebook iPad app.

So…

iPhone apps on an iPad = crap

iPad apps on an iPad = amazing

iPad without a wifi connection is torturous

iPad without a cam is bizarre its a great sharing machine and a cam for chat will make Skype my permanent phone connection.

IPad doesn’t melt legs when using on couch

Syncing iPhone apps user settings with same apps on iPad doesn’t exist

iPad doesn’t come loaded with weather

Ipad battery doesn’t seam to decrease

iPad remote by apple hasn’t been built yet… Why not ???

Why can’t I play my avi files on my iPad??

Why can’t I see a google map link from an address in a calendar??

What do I think…an amazing piece of hardware which hasn’t met my expectations….. Yet

Even thought I don’t mind using my laptop for all the purposes the iPad offers – it’ll definitely be a step in the right direction if it doesn’t melt your legs when using it. Current experience of Apple TV, iPhone, MacBook is they get too damn hot after a while.

Where’s the cam! That would have been a simple build in. More useful than the GPS – I’m not going to be sticking this on my dashboard.. or maybe I would.

Would be good for kids to read the map, or the wife to find a hotel to stop off with.. lots of ideas thinking..